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Ohio: Judge strips US citizenship of Muslim who plotted destruction of Brooklyn Bridge

Feb 11, 2020 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

“He was a wolf in sheep’s clothing who took advantage of American generosity with plans to terrorize and murder.” There are others. This should be the standard procedure for all jihad terrorists who are naturalized citizens.

“Judge strips terrorist of U.S. citizenship at government request,” by Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Associated Press, February 5, 2020 (thanks to the Geller Report)

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal judge has stripped a terrorist of his naturalized U.S. citizenship, siding with the government in the case of a Pakistan-born man convicted more than 15 years ago of plotting to destroy New York’s Brooklyn Bridge.

Defendant Iyman Faris, once a truck driver in Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced in 2003 for aiding and abetting al-Qaida by scoping out the bridge as part of a plot to cut through cables that support it. His case was among the first and highest-profile terrorism cases after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Faris met with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and worked with Sept. 11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, although some critics questioned how realistic the plot was, given post-Sept. 11 security in New York.

The government argued that Faris lied on immigration papers before becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1999 and that his terrorist affiliations demonstrated a lack of commitment to the U.S. Constitution. Faris entered the U.S. using with the passport and visa of someone he’d met in Bosnia, the government said.

“He was a wolf in sheep’s clothing who took advantage of American generosity with plans to terrorize and murder,” Steven Weinhoeft, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, said in a statement. “He does not deserve the honor of being an American citizen.”…

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  1. Carolyn Marlin says

    Feb 11, 2020 at 8:30 am

    Sir is great news that a Ohio JUDGE is not pro-kains fathers children?????

  2. Hugh Fitzgerald says

    Feb 11, 2020 at 8:45 am

    Now what happens? Will he be deported to Pakistan?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 11, 2020 at 8:35 pm

      After he serves his sentence, I hope he is.

  3. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Feb 11, 2020 at 9:07 am

    “…a lack of commitment to the U.S. Constitution ” Based on the doctrine of the
    fascist ideology of Islam, American muslims should be considered noncommittal, if not outright hostile towards the U.S. Constitution.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 11, 2020 at 10:11 am

      Very good. Muslims who do not even wish or plan to conduct jihad ‘die as hypocrites’.

      Official definition of ‘jihad’ in The Noble Quran publ. in Saudi Arabia:

      “Jihad is holy fighting in Allah’s Cause with full force of numbers and weaponry. It is given the utmost importance in Islam and is one of its pillars. By Jihad Islam is established, Allah’s Word is made superior (which means only Allah has the right to be worshiped), and Islam is propagated. By abandoning Jihad Islam is destroyed and Muslims fall into an inferior position; their honor is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an OBLIGATORY DUTY in Islam on every Muslim. He who tries to escape from this duty, or does not fulfill this duty, dies as a hypocrite.”

    • Michael Copeland says

      Feb 11, 2020 at 10:15 am

      “I am a traitor to America because my religion requires me to be”
      Samir Khan, of NY and NC

  4. jca reid says

    Feb 11, 2020 at 9:33 am

    Well a step in the correct direction. The thing is though, kicked out of the US, disappear into the Muslim world & emerge with a completely NEW, Valid identity papers & he’ll turn up in a Western European country, Australia/NZ & just carry on as usual.

  5. Chris D says

    Feb 11, 2020 at 9:49 am

    This is GREAT NEWS. One down – many more to go! He should never have been allowed IN on a false passport anyway. Send him to GITMO for a decade or two and THEN deport him please. I wish we deported MORE people who don’t like FREEDOM and want to hurt Americans. Maybe he can go to Germany next time – they welcome people who want to cause them harm.

  6. mortimer says

    Feb 11, 2020 at 10:15 am

    Many jihadists could be deported if the laws on the books were fully enforced. Many jihadists could be prevented from entering if more border officials had a full understanding of Islamic teachings.

    • elee says

      Feb 11, 2020 at 1:01 pm

      +1. So many job descriptions urgently require education about this mortal threat to the liberties and institutions the west has fought to invent and protect. Cops, prosecutors, parole officers, social workers, educators….. If we can develop and implement training of thousands of people in the month since the appearance of Wuhan coronavirus a month ago, why have we failed to educate ourselves or anyone else in the 1400 years since the Islamic infestation began?

      • James Lincoln says

        Feb 11, 2020 at 3:56 pm

        100% agree, elee.

        Utilizing existing John Guandolo’s courses UTT “Understanding The Threat” would be a great start…

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 11, 2020 at 1:29 pm

    That Muslim Pakistan-born Muslim immigrant, Lyman Faris who became a naturalized US citizen and then, in his ungrateful and vicious Islamic spirit, schemed with al Qaeda to bomb and destroy the Brooklyn Bridge was and is worse than despicable

    That jihadist , Faris, serves a reminder of another Muslim terrorist, that al Qaeda jihadist who “mastermind” of the September 11, 2001 those jihad mass murder attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammad , had confidently declared “We will win because Americans don’t realize …we do not need to defeat you militarily; we only need to fight long enough for you to defeat yourself by quitting.” That arrogant boast of by KSM should serve as a reminder that we, as Americans, need to and should stand firm ,with great fortitude, in this War of Idea’s and struggle against the jihadist who are always busy scheming to engage in mad Islamic quest by the means of the stealth jihad and the violent jihad violent . In other words, the jihadists means the conquest for supreme power and control of Islam over the West,, either by hook or by crook.
    Therefore ,all good Americans should maintain a strong vigilant fortitude against Islamic strategies , savagely and tyranny. As Thomas Jefferson had, so well, explained “Fortitude…teaches us to meet and surmount difficulties; not to fly from them.”

    Furthermore, there are still other jihadist chiefs around as on the loose ,as KSM, who are engaged in Islamic scheming to have their jihadist /stooges future Islamic terrorist attack against Americans and America.. Therefore , we ,as Americans , should not live in fear or be afraid to go to difference place and do different things ,yet even though we should feel no fear we should keep aware of our surrounding and be alert for anything that seems not to look quite right. As in “What’s wrong with this picture?” Then if something questionable is seen then it’s important to go and tell the right person about it. As example, In NY.NY a tee-shirt vendor saw some smoke come out of a parked van and so he went and informed as police officer about it. As it has been said “If you see something, say something.” To put this in another way, the wise words of Thomas Jefferson apply more now more than those words of wisdom did in his own time. For Mr. Jefferson declared “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”

  8. Shirley Ann says

    Feb 11, 2020 at 1:50 pm

    A Long, Long List of Naturalized American Citizens, who PLOTTED Traitorous Acts in our Country, is Awaiting the Wrath of American JustIce, to be served to them. Whether it is a Muslim or a Ukrainian, Foreign Born Enemies(Usually DEMS) should be Stripped of American Citizenship. A Big Thank You To The Ohio Federal Judge, who stripped Faris, A WOLF IN SHEEPS’ Clothing! But will he be DEPORTED?

  9. James Lincoln says

    Feb 11, 2020 at 4:02 pm

    According to the feature article:

    “The government argued that Faris lied on immigration papers before becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1999 and that his terrorist affiliations demonstrated a lack of commitment to the U.S. Constitution.”

    The United States government should also look back and see how many other muslims have lied on their immigration papers – strip them of US citizenship and deport them. All of them.

    I’m dead serious in a figurative sense – because the muslims are “dead serious” in a literal sense…

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 11, 2020 at 8:37 pm

      +1

  10. gravenimage says

    Feb 11, 2020 at 8:34 pm

    Ohio: Judge strips US citizenship of Muslim who plotted destruction of Brooklyn Bridge
    ……………………

    *Excellent* news!

    More:

    “He was a wolf in sheep’s clothing who took advantage of American generosity with plans to terrorize and murder.”
    ……………………

    Spot on. And he is *far* from the only one.

  11. Roger A Evans says

    Feb 11, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    Hi, what the US needs to do is come back to the US and not fighting in the Middle East area. I posted this on Facebook.

    “US needs to remove ALL ISLAMIC people. There was a 1952 US law not to allow Islamics in. In the early 1990s it was dropped, sad! Need to get all the US military back to the US and load up ALL the 3.5 million Islam/Muslims back where they came from !!!!”

    And this,:”The Islamic-Muslims have always fought among themselves. The US needs to get them out of the US, when there are some more in the US they will be fighting with the Americans if we dont walk away from GOD and Jesus and get in the Islamic religion !!!”

    I did send this to VP Pres today, I hope he will show this to Pres Trump !

    And then Pres Trump real really get it done !!!

    Roger A Evans

    PS: You might got to FB and see it…

  12. somehistory says

    Feb 12, 2020 at 12:55 am

    It must be that his prison sentence is about to be over. If and when he is deported, it will not mean the end of his life as a moslim terrorist.
    islam is a death scourge from satan the devil, and a wild beast bent on the murder of mankind.(Revelation 13 )

  13. mjazzguitar says

    Feb 12, 2020 at 1:46 am

    Back in the day, if you stole a horse, they hung you.
    What would they do with this guy?

  14. Tim Carlo says

    Feb 12, 2020 at 7:35 am

    Anything goes when it comes to Islam, In the Quran it states, when Jihad is declared deceive your enemy. When are the people of going to WakeTF up. They are not coming here to make friends or change how the think.

  15. OLD GUY says

    Feb 12, 2020 at 12:34 pm

    YES this is the only thing the islamics understand. You must show them you are strong and will resist or they will keep attacking us. Anyone who commits terrorism should be deported after they serve their prison term if they came here from a foreign country. If they are a citizen they should be executed if their action resulted in deaths or injuries to a large number of people or our military personnel. Get tuff or die.

  16. bobby tables says

    Feb 12, 2020 at 8:39 pm

    Pakistan is actually officially called the “Islamic Republic of Pakistan”…99% muslim.

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